Gold Mining Draws Hordes Of Mongolians Looking For The Lucky Strike

Since Mongolia abandoned
Soviet-style economic planning in
1990, gold miners large and small
have scoured the countryside in
search of profit, damaging water
supplies with untreated mercury
and leaving dunes of toxic tailings
in their wake.
http://www.gulf-times.com/mritems/streams/2012/4/29/2_502308_1_255.pdf